moo

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /muː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: moue

moo (plural moos)

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
2. (UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.

   You silly moo! What did you do that for?

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

1. (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

• low, boo (rare)

moo

1. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

   The cow says moo.

• moo goo gai pan
• moo shu

• OOM, omo-, oom

moo

1. river

moo

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer

moo

1. Rōmaji transcription of もお

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [mo˧˧]
• (Chipwe) IPA^(key): [mo˨˨]
• (Mongko) IPA^(key): [mo˧˧]
• Hyphenation: moo

moo

1. in, on, at
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 1:1 [Genesis 1:1]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[1], page 2:

     Xang꞉ shiˮ moo Mangsoo gi mougkhung꞉ yoʼ myidjang ri phainˮ so꞉ toˮ.

     First, God created heaven and earth.

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 23
• Hideo Sawada (2024) “Differences between ‘Lacid’ and ‘Leqi’”, in Grammatical Phenomena of Sino-Tibetan Languages, volume 6, pages 33-54

From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.

moo

1. comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)

• smoo

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː]
• Hyphenation: moo

moo

1. synonym of mooma
   • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:2, page 5:

     Judá mɨcorɨ amatɨaɨ mɨcorɨaɨ moo jɨaɨ Jacob mɨcorɨ.

     The late Juda's late brothers' father was also the late Jacob.

2. vocative of mooma

moo

1. father

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125

• Hyphenation: mo‧o

moo

1. first-person singular present indicative of moer

moo

1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

moo class ? (plural [please provide])

1. leg; foot

   Synonym: mguu

moo

1. tree, wood

• Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.